Here are some updates for the newly-released 18 mobile game and for the upcoming 18if anime!

18: Dream World Mobile Game

GameSamba has announced today that Mobcast’s hit Japanese puzzle RPG, “18: Dream World”, is now available for Apple devices via the App Store. The previous Android release has also been updated, introducing new features and events to the game.

“18” was created with the help of legendary game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Lumines, Rez, Space Channel 5). It takes place in the mysterious Dream World, where players will form a team of characters from a cast of hundreds and journey through story-filled stages in order to unlock the truth about the Dream World, and the strange new disease that’s trapping people there.

Using a combination of RPG and puzzle mechanics, players must defeat and recruit a wide variety of enemies, as they grow their heroes’ power.

Also in celebration of the new launch on iOS, GameSamba is doing a giveaway for an iPad Mini 4 and more prizes! All you need to do is install 18: Dream World on any device, play through the tutorial and character creation page, and find your Friend ID (on the “Friends” icon -> “Invites”) for the giveaway here: http://gvwy.io/1alzq3u. See more details for this contest on their website here.

One Grand Prize winner will receive a brand new iPad Mini 4! Seventeen runner up winners will receive an Ultra Rare 5 Star Diver! Eighteen additional winners will receive 3 Summon Tickets! All winners will be randomly selected and notified via in-game email with further instructions on how to claim the prize. Giveaway ends on May 31st, 2017 at 11:59PM PST.

18if Anime

Funimation has acquired 18if anime, which is based from the art of the 18 franchise which includes mysterious puzzle smartphone games. 18if will premiere in July 2017, so stay tuned for more details as we approach its premiere!

Luffy and the Straw Hats head to the glittering Gran Tesoro with hopes of winning big in the upcoming movie, One Piece Film Gold (January 10 – 17th, 2017 in the U.S. and Canada) — and you could win big, too! Otakon Vegas is just around the corner (Jan 13 – 15, 2017), so we want to send you and a friend out to Las Vegas for your very own lavish Gran Tesoro experience!

Hetalia Day falls just a week before Halloween, so let’s celebrate both–with a giveaway!

Submit a picture that celebrates Hetalia x Halloween, and we’ll choose one lucky winner to win a Hetalia prize pack! You can post fanart, cosplay, pictures of Hetalia-themed sweets or food, or anything else, as long as you made it.

Code Geass celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, and to commemorate, we’re asking you to submit your best Code Geass tribute like it’s 2006 all over again, to win… $100 worth of pizza?!

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Submit your tribute by 10/14 and you’ll be entered to win! Any kind of Code Geass tribute is okay as long as it’s a visual image or photo—you can enter Code Geass fanart or cosplay photos, or yes, even your weird photoshops or outdated memes that you still haven’t deleted off your hard drive yet for some reason. (Keep it PG-13 please.) Your entries will be shown in a gallery for other fans to see, and we’ll choose our favorite to win a $100 pizza gift certificate. (From Pizza Hut, of course. *)

The 10th anniversary is a perfect time to revisit this show for a rewatch! Get Code Geass on Blu-ray in North America for the first time! DVD and a handsome collector’s edition are also available.

For Haruhi’s 10th anniversary, and its first release on Blu-ray in North America (order now here), we’re revving up our time machine (how does it work? That’s classified information) and asking you to bring back your Hare Hare Yukai moves—with the chance to win awesome prizes including a figure, books, and a HUGE banner of the goddess herself!

If you’ve been keeping up with our current simulcast season, you may have enjoyed one of our current shows, planetarian! Did you know this show originated as a visual novel published by our friends over at Sekai Project? They’re also responsible for publishing the visual novels of some shows such as Clannad!

Whether it be a political crime story or a horror-themed nightmare, the appeal of visual novels lies in their ability to focus on an amazing concept or plot and deliver a full story within an anime-caliber framework that delivers complex themes and emotions. You can see this shine through with some of the more popular novels such as The Fruit of Grisaia, G-senjou no Maou, and Narcissu.

Visual novels are like a click-through version of a book with anime style imagery. However, unlike a book there are branching paths and choices you can make that affect the outcome of the story. The anime version of these novels only show one of these paths. For example, In the anime version of Clannad you see Tomoya with Nagisa; in the visual novel you can choose which girl you believe fits best and can follow that route to see how all of their relationships change and blossom. It’s these multiple pathways that make fans want to come back and play them over and over again.
In the case of planetarian, which is technically a kinetic novel, you do not get these choices. Kinetic novels guide you through the story as the writer intended without giving you the option to change events. Meaning, it didn’t matter if we werereading the visual novel or watching the anime, the story was always going to leave us an emotional mess.

If you’ve enjoyed watching our simulcast of planetarian this season be sure to check out our broadcast dub Thursdays at 12:30pm ET! Thanks to our wonderful friends over at Sekai Project we will also be holding a special steam key giveaway for the planetarian visual novel! You’ll have a chance to win a Steam copy ofplanetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~. All you have to do is retweet/reshare our giveaway and 5 lucky winners will be selected on Thursday, September 1st at the last Broadcast Dub episode!

We’re rolling out our next batch of Broadcast Dub English cast announcements with a very special (and very long-awaited) announcement! PLUS, find out how you can win tons of anime prizes just from watching anime!

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